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"If your face appears in the background of another person’s TikTok video shot in Berlin, will it be logged using facial recognition software running in Shanghai?"
Someone finally wrote this op-ed! nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Someone finally wrote this op-ed! nytimes.com/interactive/20…
.@oliviasolon & @cfarivar wrote this yesterday about a friendly-seeming app actually using consumer data to train facial recognition systems. Remember in the US, there is at least an adversarial, free press & separation between state and corporate entities
The web is a strategic, geopolitical terrain. The countries that control it accumulate new systemic advantages.
Putin realized this in 2011 as he watched in alarm how American technology platforms were able to destabilize Middle Eastern regimes. That became the seed of 2016 presidential election interference. (From @AndreiSoldatov and @irinaborogan's "The Red Web") amazon.com/dp/B012271TXA/… 
"I still can't believe its not a bigger story that a Chinese-owned app is quietly taking over the American market. Think about all the times US tech firms have stepped over themselves to try to access the Chinese market."
Fast-forward this by 5 years.
themargins.substack.com/p/tiktok-and-t…
Fast-forward this by 5 years.
themargins.substack.com/p/tiktok-and-t…
